Friday, July 08, 2011 7:09:34 AMWow!! This scares me about who I am going to end up with. My ex gf was a smart girl and there are a lot of dumb ones out there and I hope I don't end up with a dumb c unt.

If you look at my 12:48:53 post, you will notice that I made the same argument that 2+2=5 could be a true statement, for very high values of 2. (math geek here, too).

BUT, in my example, the basic idea is that (o) represents a single object or unit (example: a rock). So you're only dealing with natural numbers. (a rock plus a rock equals two rocks, but does not equal three rocks)

From natural numbers you could advance to integers. Eventually to rational (fractional) numbers.

Thus the very basic logic can be built on to develop more complicated language.

Wednesday, July 06, 2011 9:11:33 AMI thought our schools stopped teaching math back in the 60's when social justice, revisionist history, self esteem and environmentalism became the focus of our schools?

Good to know that somewhere, some schools still teach one of the basics!

Tuesday, July 05, 2011 10:15:33 PMthis has fake written all over it and i also feel like showing off my nerd side lol @MeGrendel basic math 1+1 =/= 3 true enough, but i took too many advanced math classes to know that 1+1 can equal anywhere from 1-3 lol if 1 is not a finite 1 but anywhere from .500000....1 to 1.4999....9 where as the number in question is actualy rounded to the ones digit sorry i had to nerd out there lol

I thought it was in jest. But wanted to explain that there was, in fact, no controversy.

If we ever meet a totally alien species, our best hope to develop a standard of communication will be the logic of math. From base math (which will probably NOT be base 10), you can expand into the elemental, and also the abstract.

Tuesday, July 05, 2011 2:04:44 PMMeGrendel and Mailbox, really? You took my post seriously? Did you take the video seriously too? "teach the controversy" didn't clue you in that I was joking? Or is there really a math is not real controversy I'm not aware of?